Life is a Highway

 A bit of progress... We finally put a pause to the destruction and started on the good part. Braedan's been hard at work cutting plywood (the fancy kind I'm told) to replace the old walls and ceiling in places.  Meanwhile, I've put on my artistic hat and started to paint. The fridge is now going to be black so that it matches the oven and microwave. I, being very aware of my many talents, was like "nah I don't need to tape the edges, I got this." But in fact, I did NOT got this. So here's the tape, and I will need to buy paint remover once it's complete 😂 The biggest paint job so far has been these cabinet doors. There's another stack that didn't fit on my makeshift table so this project will take a while.  Step 1: wash the doors with soapy water Step 2: rinse with clean water Step 3: sand everything Step 4: dust them off Step 5: wash them again  Step 6: primer (pictured here) Step 7: I'll keep you in suspense cause we ain't there yet...

 New Curtains On days that Braedan is at work and I'm not, I work on sewing projects. The curtains needed upgrading, so I went to Fabricland and found two room darkening curtains that I chopped up and turned into curtain replacements.   I spent 2-3 hours trying to lay out all the curtain pieces so that I could make all the curtains out of these 2 panels. To the downfall of my sanity, it did not work out no matter which way I shifted those things. So, I decided to make the main room curtains out of these panels so they would match, and the two "office" windows I will have to make out of another fabric.  Above: old curtain fabric  Below: new curtain fabric  The best part was that Fabricland had an amazing sale and I bought each blackout curtain panel for $15 instead of $50! 

 If it ain't broke, don't fix it! But here's the problem. There was some "broke" things so we naturally decided to "fix" everything. There was some water damage in spots, which meant that parts of our motorhome's walls, roof, and floor had rotted. To fix it requires taking apart a lot of the structure to figure out where the damage is and replace that plywood.  So, the past week or so has been majorly dedicated to destruction. We had lots of friends stop by to help us with this process. Thanks to all of them!  We ripped out the once-green, now-blackish carpet from the drivers area and stairs.  The laminate flooring had to go as well - years of use made it very brittle and cracked in some spaces. The dinette cushions had to go as well. The fabric was ripped in places and had a pattern straight out of a history book. Time for a serious upgrade! Thankfully the foam is still in good condition so I will be recovering them.  The upper bed had to come out a...

 Meet Maverick Well here we are. The motorhome has been sitting in my dad's shop for the past few months and we're finally starting to work on it. It's gonna be a big project but we are ready to take it on (we hope!)  I thankfully remembered to take a few "before" pictures! Actually, I forgot and had already done some take-down work but put the stuff back up so I could take the photos 😅  Stay tuned for the destruction photos!